Rate My Professor Laurie Guerrero

Guerrero's poetry collections include Babies under the Skin (Panhandler Publishing, 2008), winner of the Panhandler Publishing Chapbook Competition; A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013), recipient of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize and International Latino Book Award; A Crown for Gumecindo (Aztlan Libre Press, 2015), winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Helen C. Smith Poetry Award; I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake: New and Selected Poems (TCU Press, 2021); and the forthcoming REDWORK (Autumn House Press, 2026), winner of the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize. Her poems and essays have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Indiana Review, Meridians, Huizache, and the San Antonio Express News, as well as anthologies. She has received numerous honors, including Poet Laureate of San Antonio (2014-2016), Poet Laureate of the State of Texas (2016-2017), Arts and Letters Award from Friends of the San Antonio Public Library (2018), and American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Outstanding Latino/a Cultural Award in the Literary Arts (2018). Guerrero has delivered lectures and readings at events including the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, Dodge Poetry Festival, and Hunan Normal University in China, contributing to literary communities through workshops and panels.